Improvement in blind-fastener



@met i @Efira FREDERICK vEAZIE, CE WORCESTER, MASSACHUSE TTS. 'l Letters Patent No. 84,661, dated December l, 1868. d f

The Schedule referred to is: these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

r -wh- To vall whom Ait may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK VEAZIE, of the city and county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Blind-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptiomof the same, due reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which drawings- Figure l is aview 'om above of an open blind, with my improved fastener attached.

Figures 2 and 3 are sections of the lever and stationary or bed-piec'on a larger scale.

Figure 4 shows the spring.

Figure 5 is a view of my fastener, as adapted to insert through the rail or blind.

AThe same letters indicate the same parts where they occur in all the figures.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I proceed to describe its construction.

A is the stationary or bed'piece, made with chamber or cavity to receive and protect the spring from Wet or paint, thereby preventing its destruction by rust, &c.

B is the cavit a ct are stops for lever C, and they also strengthen the end of the bed-piece, which serves as a shield 'or stop, te'preveut the wooden blind from striking the pin or hook, when -from any cause the blind should be open or shut violently.

b, in fig. 1, is a notch, in which the pin i or hook j may fit, .to prevent side motion, if the blind. should be loose on its hinges, the bed-piece being made of suficient length to accommodate any thickness of blind.

c c are screw-holes, for fastening the bed-piece to the blind, as shown in dotted lines. Y

At D is a small hole, to receive and hold one end of the spring E.

The raised placed is a circular track or bearing of the bed-piece A for the lever C, whereby, in operation, no paint or other substance is liable to get in, to clog its movements, as no uncovered surface comes in contact witlrthe bearing when the lever is moved in operation.

F, ou the bed-piece', is a stem or rivet of itself,'if

desired, or may receive a rivet through it for holding the parts together', said rivet then moving at n in lever C, or` at m in the bed-piece, or b oth.

The lever C is madeeither with a hollow stem to iit ou the rivet, or stem in the bed-piece A, or with a solid stem of suitable material, said stem passing through the bed-piece, and being headed to hold the parts together.

At g, on the lever (l, is a raised surface', or circular bearing and shoulder, which ts into and covers the bearing d on the bed-piece,for the purpose aforesaid, both acting, as will be seen, as a stop to any water from running into the chamber om the lever C, to injure the spring E.

B, has a bearing all round, thereby seeming great strength to the fastener.

In the lever is a cavity for receiving the spring. jp is a slot in the stem, when made hollow, for holding one-end ofthe spring E, or, when made solid, only a wing or flange is-needed for the same, or one end of fthe spring may be put through the lever E,`to hold it, Without departing from the principle of construction of my invention.

'shellvor bed-piece being made in two halves of a taper cylinder, and provided with a screw on their outside, to hold it in place, the fastener being screwed in up to the collar at, the end acting as a shield,'as described in the other form, the parts being held together by a suitable rivet.l

Having thus vfully described my invention,

What I claim therein as. new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The construction and arrangement of the blind-fastener, having the raised surface il, the shoulder g, and cavity B, to hold thespring E and notches and shoule ders on the bed-piece, when constructed and operating in the manner and for the purposes above set forth and described. FREDERICK VEAZIE.

Witnesses:

A. E. ACKLEY,

JAMES G. ARNOLD.

The shoulder of y, by passing up into the chamber In iig. 5, the internal .construction is the same, the Y 

